I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity.
Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.
Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
My middle name should be 'Drama,' but I love it. I think everyone should have some kind of stress in their life; otherwise, it's boring isn't it?
I'm not making films for middle aged journalists, who are mostly men. I make films that hopefully entertain people, where they can learn something about life.
My life has always been - there's never been a middle. Either I had or I didn't. Either I was up or I was down.
If you're in the middle of the ocean with no flippers and no life preserver and you hear a helicopter, this is music. You have to adjust to your needs at the moment.
We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.
The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.
It has given me an insight into what it's like as an actor to come into a show in the middle of a production and fit into a group that's already established.
Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.
I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
